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• Thursday, November 23, 2006 10:52 PM

  Heavy food for thought after Thanksgiving dinner

  Mark Danner certainly clears up one thing I've been wondering about... why wasn't there a plan for what to do after we toppled Saddam? I guess I never put it together that Chalabi would be installed, and when that was put aside we were then left adrift, Bush/Cheney unable to come up with an alternative. So meanwhile, we let the future terrorists and agents of civil war clean out all those weapons depots (Rumsfeld had a rather clever dismissal of the problem of looting that I don't recall) and prepare to blow the golden dome in Samarra sky high, and also trigger today's bombings which will, I greatly fear, have a similar impact as far as triggering future strife, despair and bloodshed. Add to this volatile mix the provocative torture and murder in Abu Ghraib and other local prisons, the prevailing distrust between Sunni and Shi'ite and also the willingness of other players like Iran and Syria to assist provocation and murder, and you have civil strife that seems to be proceeding towards war with a Faulknerian inevitability. I truly don't know what policies would proceed from "reality based" decision making, and I really look forward to seeing the rest of Mr. Danner's article. I only hope that somebody somewhere can see a way forward out of the greatest foreign policy disaster in the history of the USA.

  Clifton Goodwin

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